IntraHealth
Senior Technical Manager
Unit: Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit
Country Location: Dakar, Senegal
Type of contract: Fixed terni
Reporting To: Director, Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit
Application deadline: January 15 th 2019
Application (Cover letter and resume PDF in French and English) should be sent by email
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SUMMARY OF ROLL
The Senior Technical Manager is a key member of the. senior leadership team of the Coordination Unit, charged with all technical components of the OPCU scope of work. S/he will be based at the Coordinatibn Unit in Dakar and liaise with country focal point teams and OP partners to ensure quality technical service is provided to countries as needed.
The Senior Technical Manager-will manage the OP technical work to ensure that countries and donors within the Partnership live up their commitments and the Partnership reaches it goals in terms of additional users of modem contraception. This work includes developing and tracking a region-wide strategy to achieve additional user goals; identifying countries’ needs for techni¬cal assistance and providing direct (e.g., leading technical analyses) and indirect assistance (e.g., identifying funding rn.chanisms through which external parties may be hired) to countries and donors as they seek to till Chose needs; tracking results and managing relationships around data; supporting exchanges between countries to implement high impact practices; and identifying how other OPCU staff (e.g., the Country Liaison Associates and the Senior External Relations Manager) may support the overall strategy in their deep engagements with specific stakehold¬ers.
The Senior technical Manager will be instrumental in the design, developrnent, and manage¬ment of OPCU action plans and will provide the technical and strategic lead’ :ship to stakehold¬ers at every level of the implementation of CIPs in the countries. At the sr ne Lime, the Senior Technical Manager will maintain a high-level focus across all aine countries rather than diving in too deeply in any one country. Instead, the Senior Technical Manager will advise the Director of OP how to assign country-specific tasks to the Country Liaison Associates in cases where he/she feel additional country-specific attention is required. Indeed, the OP Director will supervise the Country Liaison Associates, but the Senior Technical Manager vvill help shape and review their work.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education & Expérience
Master’s degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, International Development or related discipline Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience, with significant expertise in policy issues Experience working in a position of leadership at the regional level
Experience designing and implementing comprehensive and innovative professional develop¬ment programs
Experience leading and managing multiple, complex projects in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and ambiguous settings
Experience producing quality French and English communication products such as progress reports, case studies, and articles.
Other requirements
Dernonstrated interest in and understanding of SRFIR, FP policies of West African coun¬tries, and national and regional health systems policy
Strong knowledge of public health, RH, FP, MNCH, and data analysis
Strong analytical mindset; able to deconstruct large, complex health policies into clear and actionable strategies and initiatives
Inspiring leadership and relationship building; able to quickly build trust and credibility with both internai and external stakeholders
Comfoit managing up, down and sideways to achieve transformative outcomes Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, for a variety of audiences
Demonstrated strategic agility, diplomacy, conflict management, team building, and interper¬sonal skills to ensurè internai coherence among diverse team members and sub-partners, as well as extemal relations with the Ministry of Health, civil society, private sector and other stakeholders.
Evidence of a strong commitment to Family Planning and Reproductive Health issues Fluent in written and spoken French and English
Experience developing simple data presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint